Any word on TE384 getting airborne? According to the Warbird Registry database, she’s “grounded but airworthy, except for engine.”
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregistry/spitfire-te384.html
By: John Aeroclub - 14th December 2008 at 17:54
TE 384 was allocated to RAF Syerston and I feel sure I first encountered her at RAF Wymeswold just before this pic in 1957 and she was a familiar sight on the gate for many years (although not easily visible from the A46). The odd thing is I’m sure she was at Syerston when we took our Harriers there for a field exercise, c1972 sporting a Red spinner.
She did eventually fly in Australia and was then sold to America where she currently awaits a repaired engine. (see a link in the first post).
John
By: battle_damaged - 14th December 2008 at 10:03
John,
Who did she belong to at the time, and what happened to her?
rgds
Alan
By: John Aeroclub - 13th December 2008 at 23:24
Yes it was, I couldn’t afford bicycle clips then, but were were allowed to help push it back into the hangar and sit in the cockpit. Many years later I was to keep my L Spaatz 55 in the hangar behind.
John
By: Mark12 - 13th December 2008 at 19:58
September 1957, Syerston?
Mark
By: John Aeroclub - 13th December 2008 at 18:34
TE384, in about 1957.
John
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